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By April 2025, all visitors with visa-exempt nationalities will need an ETA to travel to the UK if they do not possess a valid UK visa or are not also citizens of the UK or Ireland. Since 27 November 2024, ETA applications have also been opened for non-visa nationalities outside the European Union, who will need an ETA for any travel to the UK ...
The UK informed the European Council of their decision to exercise their opt-out in July 2013, [42] and as such, the aforementioned legislation ceased to apply to the UK as of 1 December 2014. [ 43 ] [ 44 ] While the protocol only permitted the UK to either opt-out from all the legislation or none of it, they subsequently opted back into some ...
The UK informed the European Council of their decision to exercise their opt-out in July 2013, [19] and as such the impacted legislation ceased to apply to the UK as of 1 December 2014. While the protocol only permitted the UK to either opt-out from all the legislation or none of it, they subsequently opted back into some measures.
The United Kingdom also paid more into the EU budget than it received. [257] Boris Johnson played a key role in the Vote Leave campaign. Citizens of EU countries, including the United Kingdom, have the right to travel, live and work within other EU countries, as free movement is one of the four founding principles of the EU. [258]
UK parliamentary election results, 1950–2024 UK general elections by popular vote (in millions, since 1945). United Kingdom general elections are held following a dissolution of Parliament. All the members of Parliament (MPs) forming the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom are elected.
It achieved third place in the UK during the 2004 European elections, second place in the 2009 European elections and first place in the 2014 European elections, with 27.5% of the total vote. This was the first time since the 1910 general election that any party other than the Labour or Conservative parties had taken the largest share of the ...
United Kingdom general elections (elections for the House of Commons) have occurred in the United Kingdom since the first in 1802.The members of the 1801–1802 Parliament had been elected to the former Parliament of Great Britain and Parliament of Ireland, before being co-opted to serve in the first Parliament of the United Kingdom, so that Parliament is not included in the table below.
A referendum was expected to take place in the United Kingdom in 2006 to decide whether the country should ratify the proposed Treaty establishing a Constitution for Europe. However, following the rejection of the Constitution by similar referendums in France in May 2005 and the Netherlands in June 2005 , the UK vote was postponed indefinitely.